Nine Coaches Waiting
A clear starry sky looked down upon the dark abodes of humanity. Kerkau castle lay in the deep stillness of night. And yet a woman with fair curly hair buried her head in the pillows and could find no sleep. Tomorrow, ah tomorrow, one she loves, her sweetheart, was to forsake her. A whisper passed (ran) through the gloomy, impenetrable (dark) night
... See moreAlfred Döblin • Berlin Alexanderplatz
Now that our affairs are in order, I’m taking the family back to Hampshire.” He glanced at Kathleen with an arched brow, and she nodded in agreement. At the same time, a distant wail came from the farthest threshold of the double library. “Noooo!” Kathleen glanced quizzically toward the sound. “Pandora,” she called out, “do not eavesdrop, if you pl
... See moreLisa Kleypas • Marrying Winterborne
On the one hand the scene was hilarious: the manager bullied by his staff; the priestly Pianon helplessly aroused by the loud, ribald female crowd around him. Shay has always amused herself by envisioning him as the arid scholar Casaubon from Middlemarch, transplanted to the tropics and engrossed not in the Key to All Mythologies, but in an endless
... See moreAndrea Lee • Red Island House
From a distance, it could have looked romantic. A collection of mismatched turrets and ranging, crenellated walls, studded amid rolling green fields. But the surrounding park had grown so wild and dense from neglect that by the time the castle came into view, she was already cowering in its shadow. This castle didn’t welcome or enchant. It loomed.
... See moreTessa Dare • Romancing the Duke: Castles Ever After
Full of kindliness and sympathy, St Cyres persuaded June to give up her flat in town and to come with her small boy to live at Manor Thatch. June had acquiesced at first. She was lonely and frightened and in debt. June St Cyres was one of those young women who can never live within their incomes, but she was shrewd enough to know that she could liv
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